Querying range of cells for value

[cypherja]

I'm trying to write a formula that will look at a range of cells to see if any of them match a value, if so, I want to capture a value for that.

I put together some sample data below. What I want to do is to have the script in E1 look at all of the values in cells A5 to C9...if any of those cells contain the same value as A1, I want to show the value of the corresponding number's column heading (contained in row 3).

So, in the example below, the formula should return a result of "Thousands". The only result I can get, however, is "#Value!"

I'm copying this formula from another excel document where it works, so I'm not sure what the issue is.

	A	B	C	D	E
1	3000				=INDEX(A3:C3,MAX(IF(A5:C9=A1,COLUMN(A5:C9))))
2
3	Hundreds	Thousands	Tens of Thousands
4
5	100	1000	10000
6	200	2000	20000
7	300	3000	30000
8	400	4000	40000
9	500	5000	50000

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[steve the fish]

You need to commit the formula to the cell with CNTL-SHIFT-ENTER not just ENTER.

 

[cypherja]

You need to commit the formula to the cell with CNTL-SHIFT-ENTER not just ENTER.

Perfect, Thanks a bunch!!

 

[chicagocomputerclasses]

So what happens when you have a match in 2 columns?